Strange plants......

The Giant Hogweed is doing too well on the bank opposite the back door, anyone got a machete? I know some people think they are handsome but they seed everywhere and I think they are a pest.

To be told about a rare plant is for me very exciting but to see a whole field of them is almost too much.

This is the Purple Broomrape in all its glory and this is the first time I have ever seen it in the flesh, never mind several hundred of them. It has been recorded in Mundesley but these are in a nearby village, not on my patch. I also understand it is an endangered species so I have been very lucky to see it.